Technical Project Manager

Position: Project Manager

Experience: 10+ Years

We are looking for a Project Manager with excellent project management skills. Ideal candidate would also have:

• Background / experience in Agile scrum
• Background / experience in supporting technical projects
• Knowledge of software development processes and best practices.

Duties/Responsibilities

Sprint Planning:

• Facilitate and coordinate agile ceremonies for example sprints, stand ups, and sprint reviews.
• Monitor Sprint progress and flag challenges to scrum team as needed (e.g., overallocation, or failure of team member to update progress on assigned tasks)
• (Ideally) Monitor and report on Agile performance metrics such as velocity and burndown.

Backlog Management:

• Review product backlogs in Taskflow and align with team members on prioritization.
• Conduct backlog grooming sessions and ensure tasks/stories have all information to start the work

Project Management:

• Create work breakdown structures and create tasks in Buganizer.
• Work with team members to ensure tasks are tracked in appropriately in SmartSheet.
• Document process guides for the team.
• Work with TPgMs (Technical Project Managers) to coordinate analysis and data deep dives to inform decision making.
• Generate project plans and work with TPgMs to coordinate milestone check-ins, project kickoffs, and other project tasks.
• Work on team website and knowledge base, and help curate content with the help of TPgMs, TSCs and TSEs.
• Ensure team prepare documents (Comprehensive User guide/Playbooks, Developer Guides, Release documents) & Review the same.
• To have a great stakeholder Mgmt
• Create RAID logs for program.

Required:

• Scrum experience, or experience in a software development team in a program/project management role
• Excellent project management and communication skills
• PMO experience (preferably with PMP certification)
• Google experience preferred

Nice to have:

• Previous experience working in an Operations team
• Web content design/development.